Natural Disasters: Health-Related Aspects

2015 ◽  
pp. 315-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan D. Reinhardt ◽  
James E. Gosney
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals The Power of Radio to Promote Health and Resilience in Natural Disasters: A Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 2526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hugelius ◽  
Mike Adams ◽  
Eila Romo-Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Community Efficacy ◽  
The Impact

Humanitarian radio has been used in humanitarian aid efforts and after natural disasters over the last 15 years. However, the effects have barely been evaluated, and there are few scientific reports on the impact of radio as a disaster health response intervention. Therefore, this study aimed to provide an overview of the use and impact of humanitarian radio in natural disasters from a health perspective. A literature review of 13 scientific papers and grey literature resources was conducted. The results show that humanitarian radio could be used to promote both physical and psychosocial wellbeing by providing health-related information, advice and psychosocial support in natural disasters. Community resilience can be enhanced by the promotion of community engagement and can strengthen self-efficacy and community efficacy. Radio also has the potential to cost-effectively reach a large number of affected people in areas with severely damaged infrastructure. Radio could, therefore, contribute to health recovery and wellbeing from both individual and community perspectives. As such, health professionals; crises communication professionals, including radio journalists; and disaster-managing stakeholders should be prepared and trained to use humanitarian radio as an integrated part of the disaster health response in natural disasters.

scholarly journals Thinking health-related behaviors in a climate change context: A narrative review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Chevance ◽  
Ujué Fresán ◽  
Eric B. Hekler ◽  
Donald Edmondson ◽  
Simon j Lloyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Behavioral Medicine ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Medicine Community ◽  
Rising Sea Level

Background: Human activities have changed the biosphere so profoundly over the past two centuries that human-induced climate change is now posing serious health-related treats to the current and future generations. Rapid actions from all scientific fields are needed to contribute to both the mitigation and adaption to climate change. Purpose: This article aims to identify bi-directional associations between climate change effects (i.e., rising average temperatures, natural disasters, air pollution, rising sea level) and health-related behaviors, as well as a set of key actions for the behavioral medicine community. Methods: We synthetized the existing literature about (i) the effects of rising average temperature, natural disasters, air pollution, and rising sea level on the food system and eating behaviors, physical activity, sleep, substance use, access to safe water, and preventive behaviors; and (ii) the concurrent positive and negative roles that health-related behaviors can play in mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Results: Based on this literature review, we propose one of the first model of the complex, occasionally bi-directional, associations between climate change and health-related behaviors. Key actions are proposed with particular consideration for health equity (i.e., between and within-countries, at the intergenerational level, as well as between men and women) of future behavioral interventions. Synergies are also proposed between the field of behavioral medicine, the study of complex systems and planetary health science. Conclusions: We contend that climate change is among the most urgent issue facing all scientists, and should become a central priority for the behavioral medicine community.

scholarly journals Women’s health-related vulnerabilities in natural disasters: a systematic review protocol

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. e032079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syadani Riyad Fatema ◽  
Md. Shahidul Islam ◽  
Leah East ◽  
Kim Usher
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionThere is a paucity of evidence identifying both the physical and psychological health risks and underlying causes of women’s health-related vulnerabilities related to natural disasters. Therefore, this systematic review will be conducted to determine the impact of natural disasters on women’s health from a global perspective.Methods and analysisFive electronic databases of health research, including ProQuest, ProQuest Health and Medicine, PubMed, PsycINFO and CINAHL, will be searched to retrieve relevant literature where Medical Subject Headings terms and keywords will be used depending on the search method of each database. Google Scholar will also be searched for preliminary information on the topic and to check for further evidence that may have been missed. Inclusion and exclusion criteria will be developed and refined by the research team. We will restrict our search for empirical full-text articles published in the English language peer-reviewed journals between July 2008 and June 2018 to ensure contemporary evidence is retrieved. Two authors will participate in each step in the process, including title, abstract and full-text screening against inclusion criteria, data extraction and quality appraisal. The quality of selected studies will be assessed using the Mixed Method Appraisal Tool. Data synthesis will follow a sequential explanatory approach. Finally, the quantitative and qualitative findings will be merged under themes and described using a narrative approach.Ethics and disseminationFormal ethical approval is not required as primary data will not be collected. The results will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal and presented at national and international conferences.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019123809.

Health Communication: Implications for Diverse Populations

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Amy Hasselkus
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Health Care Decisions ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Health Related

The need for improved communication about health-related topics is evident in statistics about the health literacy of adults living in the United States. The negative impact of poor health communication is huge, resulting in poor health outcomes, health disparities, and high health care costs. The importance of good health communication is relevant to all patient populations, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Efforts are underway at all levels, from individual professionals to the federal government, to improve the information patients receive so that they can make appropriate health care decisions. This article describes these efforts and discusses how speech-language pathologists and audiologists may be impacted.

The Complexity of Health Disparities: More Than Just Black–White Differences

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Charles Ellis ◽  
Molly Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Language Pathology

Health disparities have once again moved to the forefront of America's consciousness with the recent significant observation of dramatically higher death rates among African Americans with COVID-19 when compared to White Americans. Health disparities have a long history in the United States, yet little consideration has been given to their impact on the clinical outcomes in the rehabilitative health professions such as speech-language pathology/audiology (SLP/A). Consequently, it is unclear how the absence of a careful examination of health disparities in fields like SLP/A impacts the clinical outcomes desired or achieved. The purpose of this tutorial is to examine the issue of health disparities in relationship to SLP/A. This tutorial includes operational definitions related to health disparities and a review of the social determinants of health that are the underlying cause of such disparities. The tutorial concludes with a discussion of potential directions for the study of health disparities in SLP/A to identify strategies to close the disparity gap in health-related outcomes that currently exists.

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